EAST GERMANY,: Alarm

Ever since the flare-up in Hungary,
trim-whiskered Walter Ulbricht, Communist boss of East Germany, has
been like a cat on the hot tin roof of satellite unrest. Two weeks ago
the jumpy Ulbricht, unable to stand the heat any longer, alerted the
Communist fire department. In a speech before the East German Socialist
Unity (Communist) Party Central Committee, he detailed a nefarious plot
to overthrow the regime, and named as the chief incendiary a youthful
(34) professor and editor named Wolfgang Harich. It was the first time
that Ulbricht has acknowledged...